Poggio Bracciolini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Poggio Bracciolini

Italian scholar, writer and humanist

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1380

Place of Birth: Terranuova Bracciolini, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1459

Profession: historian, translator, classical scholar, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Poggio Bracciolini

  • Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (11 February 1380 – 30 October 1459), usually referred to simply as Poggio Bracciolini, was an Italian scholar and an early Renaissance humanist.
  • He was responsible for rediscovering and recovering many classical Latin manuscripts, mostly decaying and forgotten in German, Swiss, and French monastic libraries.
  • His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero such as Pro Sexto Roscio, Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria, Statius' Silvae, and Silius Italicus's Punica, as well as works by several minor authors such as Frontinus' De aquaeductu, Ammianus Marcellinus, Nonius Marcellus, Probus, Flavius Caper, and Eutyches.

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